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The registration fee of $ | The early-bird registration fee of $139.00 for the event, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, June 4, all day Thurs., June 5 and the morning of Friday, June 6, includes dinners both evenings, continental breakfasts and lunch. Our event ends just before opening of the <a href="http://www.freepress.net/conference/" target="_blank">Fourth National Conference for Media Reform,</a> (Fri.-Sun., June 6-8) at the Minnesota Convention Center. Through a special arrangement with Free Press, convenor of the NCMR, Journalism That Matters can offer combined registration in both events for $270 -- a savings of $70 off registering separately. To register once and attend both events, go to: | ||
===Speakers=== | |||
Among speakers and co-convenors will be (alphabetical order): | |||
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<li>Richard Anderson, founder, VillageSoup.com | |||
<li>David Ardia, director, Berkman Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard | |||
<li>Stephen Clift, of e-Democracy.org local issues forums | |||
<li>Bill Densmore, Media Giraffe Project at UMass Amherst | |||
<li>Dan Gillmor, Center for Citizen Media at Arizona State Univ. (tentative) | |||
<li>Jeremy Iggers, director, Twin Cities Media Alliance / TC Daily Planet | |||
<li>Kathleen Hansen, director, Minnesota Journalism Center | |||
<li>Joel Kramer, publisher of MinnPost.com | |||
<li>Chris Peck, editor, Memphis Commercial Appeal | |||
<li>Jan Schaffer, J-Lab, Univ. of Maryland-College Park | |||
<li>Stephen Silha, Washington News Council / Media That Matters | |||
<li>Lisa Williams, owner, H2oTown and Placeblogger.com | |||
<li>Len Witt/Griff Wigley, Kennesaw State University / Representative Journalism | |||
===Agenda=== | |||
The agenda will be a mix of practical workshops on specific best practices and open, circle-round discussions. There will be ample opportunity for networking, and for planning collaboration. A detailed schedule will be posted by May 9. | |||
Revision as of 15:14, 15 March 2008
A PASSION FOR PLACE
New Pamphleteers/New Reporters:
Convening Entrepreneurs Who Combine Journalism, Democracy, Place and Blogs
June 4-6, 2008 / Minneapolis, Minn.
Minnesota Journalism Center at the Univ. of Minnesota
The first national gathering for local, online citizen journalists and entrepreneurs, sometimes called "placebloggers." Designed for existinga nd prospective journalists and entrepreneurs. Including workshops on the legal, business, journalistic, marketing, advertising and social aspects of starting and running a local online news and commerce communty.
Key objectives:
New community entrepreneurs
Part pamphleteers, part reporters and part entrepreneurs, America's new online citizen journalists are inventing a new business and a new passion -- the business of building local, literate, digital domains on the web where community and commerce flourish. But there been only infrequent efforts -- and little structure -- to share best practices.
We invite you to join the Journalism That Matters collaborative, the Minnesota Journalism Center at the University of Minnesota, the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts, the Minnesota News Council, MinnPost.com, Minnesota Public/American Public Radio, the Citizen Media Law Project at the Berkman Center of Harvard Law School and the Center for Citizen Media at Arizona State University at this national "placebloggers" convention.
We're inviting some of the best examples of local online news operations run/owned by citizen/journalists for a sharing of best practices. This is less an event to show these folks to the outside world and more an internal, sleeves-rolled-up working session for them to learn practical things from each other -- almost continuing education. These citizen journalism and new media entrepreneurs from Minnesota and around the country will share successes and failures, and to collaborate to take the next steps to ensure quality storytelling in service to democracy.
- We'll serve as an incubator / think-and-do tank for those who are consider starting their own civic engagement / citizen journalism projects in urban/rural Minnesota and nationally.
- We'll use MinnPost, Public Insight Journalism, TC Daily Planet, LocallyGrownNorthfield.org, Minnesota E-Democracy.org local issues forums, and other innovative Minnesota online journalism and community experiments and services as case studies, and ask their operators to share their solutions for sustaining growth.
Who to expect
What to expect
Combined registration saves $70
The early-bird registration fee of $139.00 for the event, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, June 4, all day Thurs., June 5 and the morning of Friday, June 6, includes dinners both evenings, continental breakfasts and lunch. Our event ends just before opening of the <a href="http://www.freepress.net/conference/" target="_blank">Fourth National Conference for Media Reform,</a> (Fri.-Sun., June 6-8) at the Minnesota Convention Center. Through a special arrangement with Free Press, convenor of the NCMR, Journalism That Matters can offer combined registration in both events for $270 -- a savings of $70 off registering separately. To register once and attend both events, go to:
Speakers
Among speakers and co-convenors will be (alphabetical order):
Agenda
The agenda will be a mix of practical workshops on specific best practices and open, circle-round discussions. There will be ample opportunity for networking, and for planning collaboration. A detailed schedule will be posted by May 9.
